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by shever73 4y ago
This is a thoughtful question. For me, it's the personal contact and supporting a local business. Amazon actively (and knowingly) harms the book trade and ignores the fact that its third-party sellers sell counterfeit items. Browsing a
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> According to a white paper shared by Otis Elevator, the vertical transportation of the future will be able to recognize you as soon as you step onboard I am unavoidably reminded of Sirius Cybernetics Corporation’s Happy Vertical People
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I use two Chrome extensions “Unpinterested!” for Google and “Not Pinterested” for Ecosia that both remove Pinterest’s search engine effluent from results.
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French is the same: j’ai faim, and Italian is too: ho fame. Both mean “I have hunger”. I wonder if English is in the minority of languages that use “I am” instead of “I have”? Interestingly, German doesn’t use the same construction for thir
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If you prefer blog format, Foone used to put their Twitter threads on their blog here: https://foone.wordpress.com/2019/03/01/the-eyes-have-it/
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The voice in my head as I read it is Brother Maynard from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Especially the “anchovies and anenomes” bit.
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In the video, he makes the point that the other thing he considered getting for his parents was a golf buggy. This came in cheaper and more useful.
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No, I don't trust Grammarly one bit. I think there was even a question in their FAQ asking "are you a keylogger?". The answer went along the lines of "No! Absolutely not! But also yes." My team still uses it despite
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They weren’t ideal, but I owe my career to writing games for the ZX Spectrum and distributing them on cassette. It wasn’t until 1988 that I was able to get an Amstrad PC1512 with floppy drives.
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My utter contempt for what Amazon has become is well established in my comment history. For anyone who wants to know more about their predatory practices, specifically around bookselling, then I recommend that you pick up a copy of “How to
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I like hardware easter eggs too. We had a HP scanner that could play "Ode to joy" from Beethoven's 9th using the motor.
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Yep, I get the same. My Gmail is a simple first initial + surname, and I've received payslips, job offers and, most entertainingly, invitations to speak at a neurosurgery conference in Brazil.
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Coming to Windows programming from x86 assembly language at the lowest level and Clipper at the highest, VB6 was awesome. It made rapid application development really easy.
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Ditto! It took me a while to realise my DNS settings were ok.
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Pity that the small town in Austria changed its name to Fugging.
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This was one of the first web pages I looked at when I got online in 1994. I looked at it again recently because it epitomises a very different and nostalgic era of the web.
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In the comments, Ron said that the game was developed on Mac and that Windows is the “port”, so it would definitely be available on Mac.
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I never thought I'd have a favourite frog, but now I do!
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Fantastic anecdote, thank you for sharing. I love these kind of stories. It reminds me of the Dwarf Fortress “dead cats in taverns” bug [0], which just goes to show the detail that goes into these game mechanics. [0] https://www.
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19% faster with Bionic Reading. I'd like to try again with different source articles that are not already part of my field of expertise. I felt as if I could answer the comprehension questions without having read the articles.
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It’s exceptionally evil! I had the same issue and couldn’t understand why I was losing credits I thought I had “bought”. This and other privacy-related issues (see my comment history) is why I won’t consciously use Amazon again.
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I use a shared spreadsheet with my wife. We’ve tried various apps and different methods, but we’ve found the spreadsheet works best.
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I'm definitely happy that my €6 per month subscription has been upgraded to Proton Unlimited. The storage boost for email is more than I'd ever use, but the ability to add more custom domains is a definite win in my book.
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Ah yes, the old slash key commands are still burned into my brain..along with the formatting key combinations for WordStar.
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This thread reminded me of 688 Attack Sub, which I always thought was a MicroProse sim. TIL that it was originally done by EA. I ordered it from the Special Reserve games club in the UK back in 1990.
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Your username definitely checks out
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I was expecting it to be a revival of the old Commodore 64 storage medium.
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Thanks for linking to this. The opinion piece was reading like something from the Maximegalon Institute of Slowly and Painfully Working Out the Surprisingly Obvious. The actual research is much more interesting and shows the need for white
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Bookmarked. This is superb! Thank you :)
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Exactly the same. I’ve added to my collection over the years and am eagerly awaiting my ZX Spectrum Next Issue 2

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